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to: THURSTON ACKERMAN
from: SANDRA PEAKE
date: 1998-03-11 17:41:00
subject: light/dark cycleing ??

TA>SP>  However, 15 watts is not enough light for those light-loving veggies.
TA>SP>  Better to use 40 watters, with the plants almost touching the bulbs.
TA>SP>  Sorry. 
TA>How about two 15 watt "growth lamps"?
  That's twice as good, Ack, but still too low for such sun-lovers as
  tomatoes. :-) It's OK if also supplemented by 1. sunshine or
  2.incandescent bulbs (not as close, because that's too much heat
  on tender baby plants) or 3. very (make that VERY) shortterm times
  until better arrangements can be made.
  No matter how bright fluorescents seem to us, there is so much
  difference between them and real sunshine that I have to provide
  shading for lights-only seedlings when they first move into my
  windows or into cold frames. It takes them a couple days to adjust
  to more light, but you can see their response in that time. Stems
  thicken, leaves darken, purplish tints appear, etc.
               ...Sandra...
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